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From the Chairman Holiday Greetings to All Our Friends and Alumni of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UT-Austin the university of texas at austin fall 1997 CHEMICALCompositionschemistry & biochemistry departmental newsletter From the Chairman Holiday Greetings to all our friends and alumni of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UT-Austin. What's Inside Inside this issue of Chemical Compositions you will find stories on several events that have been the focus of the departmental activity during the past half year. (A student) was seen trying to There is a status report on the five stages of the Welch Hall Safety Enhancement crawl into a bench-top hood, Project on p. 2. Stage I involved the remaining pre-moves associated with the Welch because the lab manual specifi- West Wing renovation project. We had to vacate the cally said to do a particular chairman’s office and the procurement office as transfer "in the hood." p. 8 part of the West Wing project and decided to make those moves permanent. All of our administrative Chairman's Corner .............. p. 1 offices are now located on level two of the ‘78 addition in three office suites near the new com- Welch Hall Saftey ............... p. 2 puter labs that were built last fall. The advising suite is home for the lower-division chemistry and Mass Spec expansion .....p. 3 the undergraduate and graduate advising offices. Procurement and the mail services are back where Undergraduate news ............. p. 6 they were when the ‘78 addition was first built, and the chairman’s suite, including the alumni and Graduate news ............... p. 7 Marvin Hackert industrial relations office, are nearby. We feel that this arrangement will allow us to better serve our Reminiscenes ................. p. 8 students and faculty in the department. The new chairman’s office features several pictures from our history project and display cases with a focus on chemistry. We are Wade "retires" ...............p. 14 all excited about the moves and we hope that you will stop by and visit when you have the opportunity. New faculty ......................... p. 4,15 While the construction projects have certainly dominated a lot of our time these past few months, I am happy to report progress in several areas. On page 3 you will Alum retorts ....................... p. 16 read about the improvements we have made in our mass spectrometry facility. As noted there, we have installed three new mass spectrometers, a HPLC, and capillary Staff awards and honors . p. 19 electrophoresis instruments over the summer and fall. These instruments, including MALDI-TOF, MAT LCQ, and HPLC/MS high resolution instruments, offer our In memorium ................ p. 20 faculty and others a state-of-the-art resource on campus for the analysis of both chemical and biological compounds. Faculty recruitment and retention continue to be major concerns and priorities of the Department. I am sorry to report that Dr. Tom Kodadek (bio-organic) will be leaving us at the end of this semester for a position at Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Also, Dr. Kuan Wang (biochem- ist) has gone on leave to serve as Director of a new muscle group being formed at NIH. We will miss them both but want to wish them well in their new positions. We also have had two retirements, Drs. Daniel Ziegler and William Wade. Dr. Ziegler was featured in last spring’s newsletter and a tribute to Dr. Wade can be found on p. 14. We did recruit three new faculty last year, but between departures and retirements, are still falling behind in faculty hires. Dr. Joyce Thoresen, Alumni and Industrial Relations, solves a pro- continued on page 3 blem with the help of Donna Reber in the new chairman's office. Welch Hall - one year later The Matsen Graduate Fellowship You will recall we had a serious fire in one of our synthetic organic labs last fall. In an act of great generosity, Al No one was injured and, thanks to the quick action of the Austin Fire Department, the and Cecilia Matsen have donated funds to fire was contained to one lab in the West Wing (or ‘59 addition) of the chemistry the department to establish the F. A. Matsen building. As a result of this fire, the AFD made a number of recommendations for Endowed Presidential Fellowship. The in- procedural and physical changes in the way chemicals are handled in Welch Hall. The come from this endowment will be used to incident received a great deal of press coverage and resulted in a UT response that provide fellowships for outstanding gradu- included a substantial financial commitment to undertake a number of procedural and ate students in theoretical chemistry. With physical modifications to the building. the availability of these new funds, it is an- The procedural changes could be enacted quickly and ticipated that we will be able to attract the included a comprehensive Chemical Management Plan very best students to the department. This that set limits on quantities of flammables and other d o n a t i o n hazardous materials that are stored in a laboratory, calls comes in the for the storage of chemicals on the basis of hazard class, wake of a simi- provides inventory summary sheets and lab contacts for lar endowment all labs in Welch Hall, and requires properly documented for graduate training for all laboratory employees and research fellowships students. Many of these changes will apply to the that the university as a whole, and UT has adopted a Laboratory Flammable Storage Matsens estab- Safety Manual that covers many of the general issues lished in the dealt within the CMP. Department of The physical modifications to Welch Hall include Physics. Prior adding a sprinkler system, lab segregation into smoke/fire to these contri- compartments, remodeling the chemical storeroom, butions, they Al and Ceclia Matsen upgrading the elevator and alarm systems, adding lab- funded the F. specific items like gas cylinder cabinets, and many HVAC A. Matsen Endowed Regents Lectureship upgrade items to improve the air handling system for the on the Theories of Matter, their first major entire building. These safety improvements and the donation to the University. This Lecture- previous renovation project for the Welch West Wing, have ship alternates between the Departments of become known as the Welch Hall Safety Enhancements Chemistry and Biochemistry and of Phys- Project. The work will be done by outside contractors ics. under the supervision of Beck Program Management with Eyewash Station Although Al Matsen “retired” HCKP Jennings/Hackler serving as primary architects. from the department 14 years ago and now The construction work will be carried out in five stages, with Stages I & III holds the title of Professor Emeritus, he related to the original West Wing project and Stages II, IV & V added as a result of the remains very active: when not clobbering the AFD recommendations following the fire. Stage I includes the West Wing opponents half his age on the tennis court, Laboratory premoves, including those associated with relocating all the departmental he is actively involved in developing theo- administrative offices to the second floor. This work will be completed by the end of ries of magnetic properties and supercon- October and should greatly improve our ability to provide ductivity. Before his work in these areas, services for our students and faculty. Stage II includes all he was widely known for extensive research of the work to be done within the laboratories with the on the use of symmetric and unitary groups exception of those labs in the West Wing. This includes to describe quantum states and spectra. the installation of a building-wide fire sprinkler system, Equally important, but less well known, is construction of smoke compartments and underfloor that he, in partnership with Stan Simonsen, chemical dams, elevator and fire alarm upgrades, plus lab brought air conditioning to the University specific upgrades. The contract for Stage II has been of Texas! In 1952, he purchased an IBM awarded to C.P. Sinder struction; work is scheduled to computer, and although humans could ap- begin by the end of the semester and is expected to be parently stand the heat of the Austin sum- completed in about a year. Stage III includes the original Spill Control Kit continued on page 3 continued on page 6 Expansion of the Mass Spectrometry Facility The role of mass spectrometry in sition of several new instruments, which ber of instruments acquired but also in their biological and chemical research has in- include three mass spectrometers, a high analytical capabilities, as briefly outlined creased dramatically during the past few performance liquid chromatograph, and a below. years due largely to development of new capillary electrophoresis apparatus. By Finnigan MAT LCQ Benchtop techniques for the ionization of adding these items, the MSF has become a MSn, HPLC/MS - This atmospheric pres- biomolecules. Consequently, biological state-of-the-art facility for the analysis of sure mass spectrometer uses state-of-the- mass spectrometry is undergoing through chemical and biological compounds. Pur- art quadrupole ion trap technology to ac- a transition to a new status, one in which it chase of the equipment, which cost over commodate both electrospray ionization is not just desirable but essen- and atmospheric pressure tial to any modern analytical chemical ionization. The laboratory dealing with bio- mass-to-charge ratio range of logical samples and molecules the instrument in both posi- having high molecular weights. tive and negative ionization Although the Mass Spectrom- modes is currently 20–2000 etry Facility (MSF) of our De- and will be increased to 4000 partment was well-equipped to in the near future. This analyze low molecular weight makes the LCQ an ideal (<10,000 Da) substances and HPLC detector, as molecules mixtures of volatile com- with masses ranging from pounds, it was seriously defi- 50–150,000 Da can be de- cient in its abilities to analyze tected.
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